Remothered: Tormented Fathers

Remothered: Tormented Fathers is a 2018 Italian survival horror video game developed by Stormind Games and published by Darril Arts. The game was originally released digitally on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows.[1] A Nintendo Switch version was released digitally in 2019, in collaboration with developer Dico Co., Ltd.[2][3] The game was also released physically in October 2019 by publisher Soedesco.[4]

Remothered: Tormented Fathers
Developer(s)Stormind Games[lower-alpha 1]
Publisher(s)Darril Arts[lower-alpha 2]
Director(s)Chris Darril
Producer(s)Chris Darril
Designer(s)Fabrizia Giuffrida
Programmer(s)Rosario Terranova
Artist(s)Omar Scala
Writer(s)Chris Darril
Composer(s)
  • Luca Balboni
  • Nobuko Toda
SeriesRemothered
EngineUnreal Engine 
Platform(s)
ReleaseMicrosoft Windows
  • WW: 30 January 2018
PlayStation 4, Xbox One
  • WW: 25 July 2018
Nintendo Switch
  • WW: September 6, 2019
Genre(s)Survival horror
Mode(s)Single-player

Created, written and directed by the Italian videogame artist and director Chris Darril, it has been described as a homage to the Japanese survival horror series Clock Tower.[5] Its story follows Rosemary Reed, a woman who arrives at the Felton family's mansion to investigate on the disappearance of the daughter, Celeste, some years before. When the owner, Richard, realize Rosemary's true intentions, a terrifying night begins.[6]

Tormented Fathers received generally positive reviews from critics. A sequel, Broken Porcelain, was released in October 2020.

Plot

An old woman named Madame Svenska meets a young man named Mr. Manni, who she begins recounting an old story to him so that it will not be forgotten.

In the year 1992, a mysterious woman named Rosemary Reed heads to the villa of Dr. Richard Felton, a retired notary, to discuss how to treat the mysterious and incurable illness he suffers from. During the interview, it is revealed that Felton's adopted daughter, Celeste, ran away from home 21 years prior and his now deceased former business partner, Professor Albert Elias Wyman, was the prime suspect for her disappearance. However, it is quickly revealed that Reed only used the medical interview as a pretext to find out the truth behind Celeste's disappearance. Angered, Felton orders Reed to leave the villa.

Later that night, Reed sneaks back into the villa to find Felton's wife, Arianna Gallo, who might have the answers she seeks. However, upon reaching Arianna's bedroom, Reed only finds a decomposed corpse. Alarmed at the discovery, Reed begins scouring the villa for more clues while a psychotic Felton stalks the halls. Eventually, Reed finds out from a recorded hypnosis session and from Felton himself that Celeste had actually returned home after her disappearance. However, Felton in his madness came to believe Celeste was a different girl named Jennifer and murdered her. A mysterious masked red nun then appears in the villa, chasing both Reed and Felton. Reed heads up into the attic, where's she's attacked by a young woman before falling unconscious.

As Reed regains consciousness, the woman apologizes for attacking her and tells her about a hidden room Felton sealed away. Reed finds and opens the sealed room, discovering that it is Celeste's bedroom. A tape recorder reveals that after Celeste returned home, she was imprisoned inside the villa with Arianna and subjected to forced hypnosis sessions which began to gradually destroy her memories. Celeste then decided to escape. Reed follows Celeste's escape path but falls into the sewers beneath the villa. Upon returning to the mansion, Reed discovers Felton's birth certificate, listing his name as Jennifer Richardine Felton. Reed realizes that Felton was born as a girl but raised as a boy and given testosterone treatments by her cruel father. This created the split Richard and Jennifer personas, and the young woman Reed encountered was Felton in her Jennifer persona.

Reed then encounters Felton's nurse, Gloria Ashmann, and warns her about Felton's madness. Gloria is shocked that Felton murdered Arianna, and confirms all of the revelations of Celeste and Felton's past. However, Gloria drugs Reed, revealing herself as the red nun. Reed attempts to escape but is captured by Felton. When Reed wakes up, Gloria reveals that she had been experimenting on Felton for revenge and manipulated him into murdering Arianna, but Celeste was able to escape. Gloria then orders Felton to kill Reed in a murder-suicide. Reed is able to escape and kill Felton by setting him on fire, as the latter drenched himself with kerosene. Reed then heads to the attic to find an escape route, and tricks Gloria into falling out of a window.

Reed approaches the mortally wounded Gloria, who reveals that she, Felton, and her fellow nuns of the Cristo Morente convent near the RossoGallo farms were subjected to inhumane experiments by Wyman to perfect Phenoxyl, an anti-psychotropic drug created by Felton, the Ashmanns, and Professor Wyman himself by synthesizing a rare species of parasitic moth to repress and erase traumatic memories that was eventually banned in the late 1960s for its severe side effects, including severe photosensitivity, hallucinations, ulcers, proliferation of the parasitic moths, and homicidal rage. Gloria then recognizes Reed as one of her fellow nuns, who set fire to the entire project to put a stop to the experiments conducted on the nuns of the convent. Reed confirms it but says her memories of that period are still missing. Gloria apologizes to and forgives Reed, telling her to keep searching for Celeste before passing away. Reed returns to Celeste's room with a piano key Gloria gave to her and finds a clue, a luggage tag pointing her towards the Flemmington Girls' Institute, an all-girls’ boarding school.

Back in the present, Madame Svenska tells Mr. Manni that Reed continued her search for Celeste.

Reception

Critical response

The game received positive reviews according to the review aggregation websites GameRankings and Metacritic.[8][10] It was praised for its atmosphere, gameplay and storytelling.[13][14]

On July 22, 2018, three days prior to Remothered: Tormented Fathers' console release, Keiichiro Toyama, creator of the Silent Hill series and Forbidden Siren, expressed his admiration for Remothered and hoped to collaborate with Chris Darril.[15][16][17]

Awards
YearAwardCategoryResultRef
2019 NAVGTR Awards Best Writing in a Drama Nominated [18]
2018 Global Music Awards Best Video Game Music Won [19]
Best Composer/ Composition Won
2018 Eurogamer Best Indie Game Won [20]
Best Italian Game Won
2018 IVGA (Italian Video Game Awards) Best Italian Debut Game Nominated [21]
Best Italian Game Won
2018 The Games Machine Best Horror Game Won [22]
Best Italian Game Won
2019 Oniros Film Awards Best Animation Won [23]
Best Song Nominated
October 2018 Oniros Film Awards Best Animation Won [24]
Best Director Nominated
Best Voice Over Nominated
Best Video Game Trailer Won
Best Song Won
Best Poster Won
2018 Rely On Horror Game of the Year Won [25][26]
Community's Game of the Year Won
2018 SH Downloads Horror Game of the Year Won [27]

Trivia

Sequel

References
Notes
  1. Ported to Nintendo Switch by Dico Co., Ltd.
  2. Published physically on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch by Soedesco.
Footnotes
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  2. "Switch players, get ready to enter Felton's mansion!". remothered.com. 22 March 2019. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  3. "Remothered: Tormented Fathers 日本語版、Nintendo Switchで配信決定！". DICO Games. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
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  5. "Remothered: Tormented Fathers review – towering fears". Metro. July 26, 2018. Retrieved December 26, 2018.
  6. Soriano, David (February 26, 2018). "REMOTHERED: TORMENTED FATHERS ANÁLISIS". IGN Spain. Retrieved December 26, 2018.
  7. "Remothered: Tormented Fathers for PC Reviews". GameRankings. Retrieved January 30, 2018.
  8. "Remothered: Tormented Fathers for PlayStation 4 Reviews". GameRankings. Retrieved July 25, 2018.
  9. "Remothered: Tormented Fathers for Xbox One Reviews". GameRankings. Retrieved July 25, 2018.
  10. "Remothered: Tormented Fathers for PC Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved January 30, 2018.
  11. "Remothered: Tormented Fathers for PlayStation 4 Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved July 25, 2018.
  12. "Remothered: Tormented Fathers for Xbox One Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved July 25, 2018.
  13. Crowshaw, Theo (January 30, 2018). "REMOTHERED: TORMENTED FATHERS REVIEW". Keen Gamers. Retrieved December 26, 2018.
  14. "Remothered: Tormented Fathers - recensione". Eurogamer Italia. February 5, 2018. Retrieved December 26, 2018.
  15. 外山圭一郎 (22 July 2018). "Chris-san, I fell in love with the upcoming survival horror game Remothered and its story. It would be wonderful if we could do something together someway. @chrisdarrilpic.twitter.com/1HSTemIPhQ". twitter.com. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  16. "Guess who spoke about Remothered: Tormented Fathers". remothered.com. 24 July 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  17. Zibbo, Matteo (24 July 2018). "Keiichiro Toyama vorrebbe collaborare con i creatori di Remothered: Tormented Fathers". eurogamer.it. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  18. "Nominee List for 2018". National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers. February 11, 2019. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  19. "Global Music Awards - Music Competition". www.globalmusicawards.com.
  20. "Eurogamer Awards 2018 feature - Remothered: Tormented Fathers". Eurogamer.
  21. "IVGA - Italian Video Game Awards". www.remothered.com.
  22. "TGM Awards 2018: l'elenco di tutti i vincitori". 22 December 2018.
  23. https://onirosfilmawards.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2019/07/ONIROS_ANNUAL_2019b.pdf
  24. https://onirosfilmawards.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2018/11/ONIROS_OCTOBER_2018.pdf
  25. "Rely On Horror's 2018 Game Of The Year Is ... Remothered: Tormented Fathers - Rely on Horror". www.relyonhorror.com. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  26. "Rely on Horror's 2018 Community Game of the Year is ... Remothered: Tormented Fathers - Rely on Horror". www.relyonhorror.com. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  27. Orsetti, Florencia. "Lunatika´s Choice: Remothered — Mejor juego de horror de 2018". shdownloads.com.ar. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
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  29. "Players Choice Indie of the Year 2017 feature - Remothered: Tormented Fathers". Indie DB.
  30. "Remothered: Tormented Fathers". Metacritic. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  31. http://www.remothered.com/remothered-meaning-name/
  32. http://www.upsidedownmagazine.it/remothered-tormented-fathers-tutte-le-citazioni-cinematografiche-e-videoluche/
  33. https://youtube.com/NK3Skg8x52U
  34. https://gamebase.com.br/game/45404/remothered-tormented-fathers/
  35. https://lostmediawiki.com/Remothered_(cancelled_remake_of_horror_game_%22Clock_Tower%22;_2007-2012)
  36. "Remothered sequel Going Porcelain announced for PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC". Gematsu. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
  37. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1285950/Remothered_A_Lamb_To_The_Slaughter__Book_1/
  38. https://www.gog.com/game/remothered_a_lamb_to_the_slaughter_book_1
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